Connolly's not necessarily gone - they can't hide his cap hit on the Marlies anymore so if he's good enough to crack the Maple Leafs roster, he will.

Assuming some team out there isn't falling all over themselves to scoop up a soft, injury-prone, vastly overpaid player of course.

(That being said it's possible that Nonis is seeing if he can get rid of Connolly for nothing before resigning himself to exchanging him for a different undesireable contract - a la our SOB for Ryan Parent trade a couple years back.)

Vader wrote:Tim Connolly on waivers...perhaps for the purpose of a buy out

Matthew Lomabrdi....gone

Clearing room for Luongo?

I believe they are on the hook for all but $900k of his salary cap. Either Nonis is 1) clearing house of Burke babies and strays2) sending a clear message to the league that they can finish in 29th, ahead of Edmonton, without these Connolly or Lombardi3) making room for Luongo

Vader wrote:Tim Connolly on waivers...perhaps for the purpose of a buy out

Matthew Lomabrdi....gone

Clearing room for Luongo?

I believe they are on the hook for all but $900k of his salary cap. Either Nonis is 1) clearing house of Burke babies and strays2) sending a clear message to the league that they can finish in 29th, ahead of Edmonton, without these Connolly or Lombardi3) making room for Luongo

I think Nonis is looking over that roster and thinking why bother bringing in a franchise goalie for 5 years when it'll take that long to build a contender. I suspect he's going to blow off the season and try for Jones/Drouin/McKinnon. I know I would flush the turds if I was GM.

Uncle dans leg wrote:I think Nonis is looking over that roster and thinking why bother bringing in a franchise goalie for 5 years when it'll take that long to build a contender. I suspect he's going to blow off the season and try for Jones/Drouin/McKinnon. I know I would flush the turds if I was GM.

You're making him Brutus to Burke's Caesar... not sure if it's relevant. This Toronto squad has Nonis' fingerprints all over, the same way ours has Gillman's.

Uncle dans leg wrote:I think Nonis is looking over that roster and thinking why bother bringing in a franchise goalie for 5 years when it'll take that long to build a contender. I suspect he's going to blow off the season and try for Jones/Drouin/McKinnon. I know I would flush the turds if I was GM.

If that is what Nonis is thinking, he should start submitting his EI application. The upper management, the fans, and the media obviously have no patience for a rebuild.

Uncle dans leg wrote:I think Nonis is looking over that roster and thinking why bother bringing in a franchise goalie for 5 years when it'll take that long to build a contender. I suspect he's going to blow off the season and try for Jones/Drouin/McKinnon. I know I would flush the turds if I was GM.

You're making him Brutus to Burke's Caesar... not sure if it's relevant. This Toronto squad has Nonis' fingerprints all over, the same way ours has Gillman's.

Not that it helps in solving the why-waive-Connolly puzzle.

Keep in mind when we cut Burkie loose Nonis gave the existing group (who were a pretty successful team at the time) one season before he started building his team in pretty much the exact opposide order that BB had attempted.

Even if Nonis has been more or less on board with most of the moves Burke made, he is his own GM and a new GM typically has a mandate to clean house if necessary.. Burke waiving the guy he signed eighteen months ago looks horrible but a new GM after that signing (and others) got the previous one fired can do whatever he wants.

I can't see why Nonis would be intentionally tanking the season. The draft lottery rules have changed that any none playoff can win the lottery. Rumor has it teams have complained about their counterparts tanking on purpose. No one could possibly argue Edmonton has been trying to ice a playoff caliber team over the last few years. The odds of winning are still higher the lower you finish but the no team can move up more than 4 spots rule is no more. Tanking doesn’t assure you anything.

Strangelove wrote:Hmmm should be middle of the pack in goals-for again.And in the basement in goals-against again.Looking over the entire roster it's pretty tough to figure a way to fix the mess that is the TO Leaves.... especially for a man like NO-NUTS.

Thank you Mr Burke!

Luongo will at least let them see the promised land. Right now, they are in year 45 of wandering the desert. (no cup is one thing. not even making the SC finals is abyssmal)

I really hate the leafs, but I would sacrifice Lu to the leafs if we could save Gardiner